roll call

Example Sentences

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The effect is as interesting as reading a grade-school roll call.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Eastern on Wednesday, and a roll call could be tight.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 11, 2025

At morning roll call, the prisoners could not see one another, but they could hear each person state their full name and home village.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2025

A little more than a half hour before the game, the Bruins might have felt at home as their student band conducted a pregame roll call.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2025

He intoned a roll call of words: “Do-you-think-you-can-escape-from-my-clutches?”

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan